This was our common ground, the secret we shared but never spoke
aloud. I should have been
with him; she should have left him alone. Shoulda, coulda, woulda. It's so easy
in the past tense.

“Why should I even bother? What's the point, really?"He thought for a moment. "W…”

“If you try anything, if you try to lose weight, or to improve yourself, or to l…”

“Now, see," Wes said, nodding at my plate, "this is going to blow your mind."I l…”

“It's all in the view. That's what I mean about forever, too. For any one of us …”